Office of the Historian

800.01 M 31/215: Telegram

The Ambassador in Great Britain (Houghton) to the Secretary of State

London, June 12, 1925—noon.
[Received June 12—8:23 a.m.]

172. Your 133, April 25, 5 p.m. I am informally advised by the Foreign Office that so far as it is aware there are no existing treaty engagements towards third parties affecting the territories in question and that the proviso was inserted merely as a precaution of a general nature.

Houghton